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British International Investment partners with Access Bank Plc to extend US$60 million trade finance facility across five African countries   Loan facility will help to ensure availability of key commodities across import-dependent economies and critical inputs for manufacturing goods, medicine, commodities, construction, food and agriculture. Programme aims to stimulate African ...

FIRSTBANK SPONSORS THE AFRICA INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXHIBITION (A.I.T.E 2023), NEW YORK, PROMOTES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE CONTINENT   First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, sponsored the Africa International Trade Exhibition (A.I.T.E 2023), held on 21 and 22 September 2023 at the Hilton ...

UBA Group Chairman, Tony O. Elumelu, Applauded by Distinguished Leaders for Youth Empowerment in Africa A gathering of prominent global leaders, including Nigeria’s President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, representatives from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), as well as ...

HACKAHOLICS DIGITAL SUMMIT 2023: WEMA BANK LAUNCHES AFRICA’S LARGEST GATHERING OF INNOVATORS, DISRUPTORS, REGULATORS, POLICYMAKERS, INVESTORS & CUSTOMERS IN THE DIGITAL SPACE Wema Bank, Nigeria’s most innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has announced the launch of the Hackaholics Digital Summit 2023, Africa’s largest gathering ...

FG is Working to Remove Impediments to FX Rate Wale Edun tells Indian Investors at G20 Wale Edun, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, has assured investors that the government is working to expunge macroeconomic impediments to the stability of the exchange rate and inflation in the ...

Nigeria is the Right Place for You…Tinubu Tells Hinduja Group Chairman President Bola Tinubu has assured potential Indian investors about the enormous profits they stand to make in Nigeria. He premised this on the pledge that his administration would break every bottleneck that impedes their ease of doing business in ...

Nigeria Export Trade to UK stood at £3.3bn by June 2023 – British Deputy High Commissioner Nigeria’s exports into the UK from June 2022 to June 2023 were worth 3.3 billion pounds, according to the British Deputy High Commissioner, Jonny Baxter. Baxter gave the figure while speaking on the level ...

ZENITH BANK APPOINTS DR. JULIET EHIMUAN AS NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Board of Directors of Zenith Bank Plc has appointed Dr. Juliet Ehimuan as a Non-Executive Director of the bank effective August 29, 2023. The appointment, which was announced in a statement to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited on Tuesday, August ...

Access Pensions Surpasses N1 Trillion AUM Milestone Access Pensions Limited, a subsidiary of Access Corporation, has achieved an astonishing feat, surpassing the N1 trillion mark in assets under management (AUM).   In an impressive trajectory, the Company – which emerged from the business combination of Sigma Pensions and First Guarantee ...

Fuel Queues Hit Lagos, Ogun and others as Thieves Vandalise Pipelines Long queues for Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, are beginning to resurface at filling stations in Lagos and Ogun states, and in few other locations in South-Western states. Queues were sighted at many stations, particularly those on the ...